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SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES. 



1. The President having taken the chair, and a quorum being present, 
the journal of the preceding day shall be read-, to the end that any mis- 
take may be corrected that shall be made in the entries. 

2> No member shall speak to another, or otherwise interrupt the busi- 
ness of the Senate, or read any newspaper, While the journals or public 
papers are reading, or when any member is speaking in any debate. 

3. Every member, when he speaks, shall address the Chair, standing 
in his place; and, when he has finished, shall sit down. 

4. No member shall speak more than twice, in any one debate, on the 
same day, without leave of the Senate* 

5. When two members rise at the same time, the President shall name 
the person to speak ) but in all Cases the member who shall first rise and 
address the Chair shall speak first. 

%, When a member shall be called to order by the President, or a sen- 
ator, he shall sit down} and every question of order shall be decided by 
the President, without debate, subject to an appeal to the Senate; and the 
President may call for the sense of the Senate on any question of order. 

7. If the member be Called to order by a senator for words spoken, the 
exceptionable words shall immediately be taken down in writing, that 
the President may be better enabled to judge of the matter. 

8. No member shall absent himself from the service of the Senate, 
without leave of the Senate first obtained. And, in case a less number 
than a quorum of the Senate shall convene, they are hereby authorized 
to send the sergeam>at*arms, or any other person or persons by them au- 
thorised, for any or all absent members, as the majority of such members 
present shall agree, at the expense of such absent members, respectively, 
unless such excuse for non-attendance shall be made as the Senate, when 
a quorum is convened, shall judge sufficient; and, in that case, the ex- 
pense shall be paid out of the contingent fund. And this rule shall apply 



4 RULES OF THE SENATE. 

as well to the first convention of the Senate at the legal time of meet' 
ing, as to each day of the sessicgi, after the feour has arrived to which the 
Senate stood adjourned. 

9. No motion shal be debated until the same shall be seconded. 

10. Wr*n a *iotion shall be made and seconded, it shall be reduced 
to writing, if desired by the President, or any member, delivered in at 
the table, and read, before the same shall be debated. 

11. When a question is under debate, no motion shall be received but 
to adjourn, to lie on the table, to postpone indefinitely, to postpone to a 
day certain, to commit, or to amend ; which several motions shall have 
precedence in the order they stand arranged, and the motion for adjourn- 
ment shall always be in order, and be decided without debate. 

12. If the question in debate contain several points, any member may 
have the same divided : but, on a motion to strike out and insert, it shall 
not be in order to move for a division of the question: but the rejection 
of a motion to strike out and insert one proposition shall not prevent a 
motion to strike out and insert a different proposition; nor prevent a sub- 
sequent motion, simply to strike out; nor shall the rejection of a motion 
simply to strike out prevent a subsequent motion to strike out and insert. 

13. In filling up blanks, the largest sum and longest time shall be first 
put. 

14. When the reading of a paper is called for, and the same is object- 
ed to by any member, it shall be determined by a vote of the Senate, and 
without debate. 

15. The unfinished business in which the Senate was engaged at the 
last preceding adjournment, shall have the preference in the special or- 
ders of the day. 

16. When the yeas and nays shall be called for by one-fifth of the 
members present, each member called upon shall, unless for special rea- 
son he be excused by the Senate, declare openly, and without debate, 
his assent or dissent to the question. In taking the yeas and nays, and 
upon the call of the house, the names of the members shall be taken 
alphabetically. 

17. ^Vnen the yeas and nays shall be taken upon any question, in pur- 
suance of the above rule, no member shall be permitted under any cir- 
cumstances whatever, to vote after the decision is announced from the 
Chair. 

18. On a motion made and seconded to shut the doors of the Senate, 
on the discussion of any business which may, in the opinion of a mem- 
ber, require secrecy, the President shall direct the gallery to be cleared ; 
and, during the discussion of such motion, the doors shall remain shut. 

19. No motion shall be deemed in order, to admit any person or per- 



RULES OF THE SENATE. 5 

sons whatsoever within the doors of the Senate chamber to present any 
petition, memorial, or address, or to hear any such read. 

20. When a question has been once made and carried in the affirma- 
tive or negative, it shall be in order for any member of the majority to 
move for the reconsideration thereof: but no motion for the reconsidera- 
tion of any vote shall be in order after a bill, resolution, message, report, 
amendment, or motion, upon which the vote was taken, shall have gone 
out of the possession of the Senate, announcing their decision; nor shall 
any motion for reconsideration be in order, unless made on the same day 
on which the vote was taken, or within the two next days of actual ses- 
sion of the Senate thereafter. 

21. When the Senate are equally divided, the Secretary shall take the 
decision of the President. 

22. All questions shall be put by the President of the Senate, either in 
the presence or absence of the President of the United States ; and the 
senators shall signify their assent or dissent, by answering, ay or no. 

23. The Vice President, or President of the Senate pro tempore , shall 
have the right to name a member to perform the duties of the Chair; but 
such substitution shall not extend beyond an adjournment. 

24. After the journal is read, the President shall first call for petitions, 
and then for reports from standing committees ; and every petition or me- 
morial or other paper shall be referred, of course, without putting a ques- 
tion for that purpose, unless the reference is objected to by a member at 
the time such petition, memorial, or other paper, is presented. And be- 
fore any petition or memorial, addressed to the Senate, shall be received 
and read at the table, whether the same shall be introduced by the Pres- 
ident or a member, a brief statement of the contents of the petition or me- 
morial shall verbally be made by the introducer. 

25. One day's notice, at least, shall be given of an intended motion 
for leave to bring in a bill; and all bills reported by a committee, shall, 
after the first reading, be printed for the use of the Senate : but no other 
paper or document shall be printed for the use of the Senate, without 
special order. 

26. Every bill shall receive three readings previous to its being passed; 
and the President shall give notice at each, whether it be the first, sec- 
ond, or third; which readings shall be on three different days, unless the 
Senate unanimously direct otherwise. And all resolutions proposing 
amendments to the constitution, or to which the approbation and signa- 
ture of the President may be requisite, or which may grant money out of 
the contingent or any other fund, shall be treated, in all respects, in the 
introduction and form of proceedings on them, in the Senate, in a similar 



O RULES OF THE SENATE. 

manner with bills ; and all other resolutions shall lie on the table one day 
for consideration; and also reports of committees. 

27. No bill shall be committed or amended until it shall have been 
twice read; after which it may be referred to a committee. 

28. All bills on a second reading shall first be considered by the Senate 
in the same manner as if the Senate were in committee of the whole, be- 
fore they shall be taken up and proceeded on by the Senate agreeably to 
the standing rules, unless otherwise ordered. And when the Senate 
shall consider a treaty, bill, or resolution, as in committee of the whole, 
the Yice President, or President pro tempore, may call a member to fill 
the chair, during the time the Senate shall remain in committee of the 
whole: and the chairman so called shall, during such time, have the 
powers of a President pro tempore. 

29. The final question, upon the second reading of every bill, resolu- 
tion, constitutional amendment, or motion, originating in the Senate, and 
requiring three readings previous to being passed, shall be, " Whether it 
shall be engrossed and read a third time? " and no amendment shall be 
received for discussion at the third reading of any bill, resolution, amend- 
ment, or motion, unless by unanimous consent of the members present; 
but it shall at all times be in order, before the final passage of any such 
bill, resolution, constitutional amendment, or motion, to move its com- 
mitment; and should such commimient take place, and any amendment 
be reported by the committee, the said bill, resolution, constitutional 
amendment, or motion, shall be again read a second time, and consider- 
ed as in committee of the whole, and then the aforesaid question shall 
be again put. 

30. The special orders of the day shall not be called by the Chair be- 
fore one o'clock, unless otherwise directed by the Senate. 

31. The titles of bills, and such parts thereof only as shall be affected 
by proposed amendments, shall be inserted on the journals. 

32. The proceedings of the Senate, when not acting as in committee 
of the whole, shall be entered on the journal as concisely as possible, 
care being taken to detail a true and accurate account of the proceedings ; 
but every vote of the Senate shall be entered on the journal, and a brief 
statement of the contents of each petition, memorial, or paper, presented 
to the Senate, shall also be inserted on the journal. 

33. The following standing committees, to consist of five members 
each, shall -be appointed at the commencement of each session, with leave 
to report by bill or otherwise: 

A Committee on Foreign Relations. 
A Committee on Finance. 
A Committee on Commerce, 



RULES OP THE SENATE. 7 

A Committee on Manufactures. 

A Committee on Agriculture. 

A Committee on Military Affairs. 

A Committee on the Militia. 

A Committee on Naval Affairs. 

A Committee on Public Lands. 

A Committee on Private Land Claims. 

A Committee on Indian Affairs. 

A Committee of Claims. 

A Committee on Revolutionary Claims. 

A Committee on the Judiciary. 

A Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. 

A Committee on Roads and Canals. 

A Committee on Pensions. 

A Committee on the District of Columbia. 

A Committee on Patents and the Patent Office. 

A Committee on Retrenchment, to consist of five members, whose du- 
ty it shall be to take into consideration the expenditures of the govern- 
ment in the several departments thereof, and to inquire whether any, and 
if any, what retrenchment can be made, without injury to the public ser- 
vice j and to report thereupon, together with such propositions relative 
thereto as to them shall seem expedient. 

A Committee on Territories, to consist of five members. 

A Committee of three members, whose duty it shall be to audit and 
control the contingent expenses of the Senate. 

A Committee on Public Buildings, to consist of three members, to act 
jointly with the same committee of the House of Representatives. 

A Committee on Printing, to consist of three members, to whom shall 
be referred every question on the printing of documents, reports, or other 
matter transmitted by either of the executive departments, and all memo- 
rials, petitions, accompanying documents, together with all other matter, 
the printing of which shall be moved, excepting bills originating in Con- 
gress, resolutions offered by any senator, communications from the legis- 
latures of the respective States, and motions to print by order of the stand- 
ing committees of the Senate; and it shall be the duty of such Committee 
on Printing to report in every case, in one day, or sooner, if practicable. 

And a committee, consisting of three members, whose duty it shall be 
to examine all bills, amendments, resolutions, or motions, before they go 
out of possession of the Senate, and shall deliver the same to the Secre- 
tary of the Senate, who shall enter upon the journal that the same have 
been correctly engrossed. 

34. In the appointment of the standing committees the Senate will pro- 



S RULES OF THE SEX ATE. 

ceed by ballot, severally to appoint the chairman of each committee, and 
then, by one ballot, the other members necessary to complete the same; 
and a majority of the whole number of votes given , shall be necessary to 
the choice of a chairman of a standing committee. All other committees 
shall be appointed by ballot, and a phirality of votes shall make a choice. 
When any subject or matter shall have been referred to a committee, any 
other subject or matter of a similar nature., may, on motion, be referred to 
such committee. 

35. When motions are made for reference of the same subject to a 
select committee, and to a standing committee, the question on reference 
to the standing committee shall be first put. 

36. When nominations shall be made in writing by the President of 
the United States to the Senate, a future day shall be assigned, unless 
the Senate unanimously direct otherwise, for taking them into considera- 
tion. Nominations neither approved nor rejected during the session at 
which they are made, shall not be acted upon at any succeeding session 
without being again made by the President. When the President of 
the United States shall meet the Senate in the Senate chamber, the Pres- 
ident of the Senate shall have a chair on the floor, be considered as the 
head of the Senate, and his chair shall be assigned to the President of 
the United States. When the Senate shall be convened by the President 
of the United States to any other place, the President of the Senate and 
senators shall attend at the place appointed. The Secretary of the Senate 
shall also attend to take the minutes of the Senate. 

37. Whenever a treaty shall be laid before the Senate for ratification, 
it shall be read a first time for information only ; when no motion to re- 

. ratify, or modify the whole, or any part, shall be received. Its sec- 
ond reading shall be for consideration and on a subsequent day; when it 
shall be taken up as in committee of the whole, and every one shall be 
free to move a question on any particular article, in this form: •• Will the 
Senate advise and consent to the ratification of this article? " or to pro- 
pose amendments thereto, either by inserting or by leaving out words ; in 
which last case, the question shah be, " Shall these words stand as part 
of the article? " And in every of the said cases, the concurrence of two- 
thirds of the senators present shall be requisite to decide affirmatively. 
And when through the whole, the proceedings shall be stated to the 
house, and questions shall be again severally put theron for confirma- 
tion, or new ones proposed, requiring, in like manner, a concurrence of 
r^o-t±drds, for whatever is retained or inserted; the votes so confirmed 
shall, by the house, or a committee thereof, be reduced into the form of 
a ratification, with or without modifications, as may have been decided, 
and shall be proposed on a subsequent day, when every one shall again 



RULES OF THE SENATE. U 

be free to move amendments, either by inserting or leaving out words; 
in which last case, the question shall be, u Shall these words stand as 
part of the resolution? " And in both cases, the concurrence of two- 
thirds shall be requisite to carry the affirmative, as well as, on the final 
question, to advise and consent to the ratification in the form agreed to. 

38. All confidential communications, made by the President of the 
United States to the Senate, shall be by the members thereof kept secret; 
and all treaties which may be laid before the Senate shall also be kept 
secret, until the Senate shall, by their resolution, take off the injunc- 
tion of secrecy. 

39. All information or remarks, 4@u.chk*g or concerning-^the character 
or qualifications of any person nominated by the President to office, shall 
be kept secret. 

40. When acting on confidential or executive business, the Senate 
shall be cleared of all persons, except the Secretary, the principal or the 
executive clerk, the sergeant-at-arms and doorkeeper, and the assistant 
doorkeeper. 

41. The legislative proceedings, the executive proceedings, and the 
confidential legislative proceedings of the Senate, shall be kept in sepa- 
rate and distinct books. 

42. The President of the United States shall, from time to time, be 
furnished with an authenticated transcript of the executive records of the 
Senate; and all nominations approved, or definitively acted on by the 
Senate, shall be returned by the Secretary, from day to day, as such pro- 
ceedings may occur; but no further extract from the executive journal 
shall be furnished, except by special order; and no paper, except origi- 
nal treaties transmitted to the Senate by the President of the United 
States, or any executive officer, shall be returned or delivered from the 
office of the Secretary, without an order of the Senate for that purpose. 

43. When an amendment to be proposed to the constitution is under 
consideration, the concurrence of two-thirds of the members present shall 
not be requsite to decide any question for amendments, or extending to 
the merits, being short of the final question. 

44. When any question may have been decided by the Senate, in 
which two -thirds of the members present are necessary to cany the 
affirmative, any member who votes on that side which prevailed in the 
question, may be at liberty to move for a reconsideration; and a motion 
for reconsideration shall be decided by a majority of votes. 

45. Messages shall be sent to the House of Representatives by the Sec- 
retary, who shall previously endorse the final determination of the Senate 
thereon. 



10 RULES OF THE SENATE. 

46. Messengers are introduced in any state of business, except while a 
question is putting, while the yeas and nays are calling, or while the 
ballots are counting. 

47. The following persons, and none others, shall be admitted on the 
floor of the Senate; members, of the House of Representatives, and their 
Clerk; the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secre- 
tary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, the Attorney General, and the 
Postmaster General; the private secretary of the President, chaplains to 
Congress, judges of the United States, foreign ministers, and their secre- 
taries; officers who, by name, have received, or shall hereafter receive, 
the thanks of Congress for. .their gallantry and good conduct in the ser- 
vice of their country, or who have received medals by a vote of Con- 
gress ; the governor for the time being of any State or Territory of the 
Union ; the ex- governors of the several States ; the ex-officers of the Sen- 
ate ; such gentlemen as have been heads of departments, or members of 
either branch of Congress; persons who, for the time being, belong to 
the respective State and Territorial legislatures ; and persons belonging 
to such legislatures of foreign governments as are in amity with the Uni- 
ted States. 

48. The presiding officer of the Senate shall have the regulation of 
such parts of the Capitol and of its passages, as are or may be set apart 
for the use of the Senate and its officers. 

49. Whenever a claim is presented to the Senate and referred to a com- 
mittee, and the committee report that the claim ought not to be allowed, 
and the report be adopted by the Senate, it shall not be in order to move 
to take the papers from the files for the purpose of referring them at a 
subsequent session, unless the claimants shall present a memorial for that 
purpose, stating in what manner the committee have erred in their report, 
or that new evidence has been discovered since the report, and setting 
forth the new evidence in the memorial: Provided, That this rule shall 
not extend to any case where an adverse report, not in writing, shall 
have been made prior to the 25th of January, 1842. 

50. Any officer or member of the Senate convicted of disclosing for 
publication any written or printed matter directed by the Senate to be 
held in confidence, shall be liable, if an officer, to dismissal from the 
service of the Senate, and, in the case of a member, to surfer expulsion 
from the body. 



JOINT RULES AND ORDERS 

OF 

THE TWO HOUSES. 



1. In every case of an amendment of a bill agreed to in one House, 
and dissented to in the other, if either House shall request a conference, 
and appoint a committee for that purpose, and the other House shall also 
appoint a committee to confer, such committees shall, at a convenient 
hour, to be agreed on by their chairman, meet in the conference cham- 
ber, and state to each other, verbally or in writing, as either shall choose, 
the reasons of their respective Houses for and against the --amendment, 
and confer freely thereon. 

2. When a message shall be sent from the Senate .to the House of 
Representatives, it shall be announced at the door of the House by the 
Doorkeeper, and shall be respectfully communicated to the Chair by the 
person by whom it may be sent. 

3. The same ceremony shall be observed when a message shall be 
sent from the House of Representatives to the Senate. 

4. Messages Shall be sent by such persons as a sense of propriety in 
each House may determine to be proper. 

.5. While bills are on their passage between the two Houses, they shall 
be on paper, and under the signature of the Secretary or Clerk of each 
House, respectively. 

6. After a bill shall have passed both Houses, it shall be duly enrolled 
on parchment by the Clerk of the House of Representatives, or the Secre- 
tary of the Senate, as the bill may have originated in the one or the other 
House, before it shall be presented to the President of the United States. 

7. When bills are enrolled, they shall be examined by a joint commit- 
tee of two from the Senate and two from the House of Representatives 
appointed as a standing committee for that purpose, who shall carefully 
compare the enrolment with the engrossed bills, as passed in the two 
Houses, and, correcting any errors that may be discovered in the en- 
Tolled bills, make their report forthwith to their respective Houses. 

8. After examination and report, each bill shall be signed in the re- 
spective Houses, first by the Speaker of the House of Representatives 
then by the President of the Senate. 

9. After a bill shall have been thus signed in .each House, it shall be 
presented, by the said committee, to the President of the United States, 
for his approbation, (it being first endorsed on the back of the roll, certi- 
fying in which House the same originated; which endorsement shall be 
signed by the Secretary or Clerk, as the case may be, of the House in 
which the same did originate,) and shall be entered on the journal ot 



12 JOINT RULES OF THE TWO HOUSES. 

each House. The said committee shall report the day of presentation to 
the President; which time shall also he carefully entered on the journal 
of each House. 

10. All orders, resolutions, and votes, which are to be presented to 
the President of the United States, for his approbation, shall also, in the 
same manner, be previously enrolled, examined, and signed; and shall 
be presented in the same manner, and by the same committee, as pro- 
vided in the cases of bills. 

11. When the Senate and House of Representatives shall judge it 
proper to make a joint address to the President, it shall be presented to 
him in his audience chamber by the President of the Senate, in the pres- 
ence of the Speaker and both Houses. 

12. When a bill or resolution which shall have passed in one House is 
rejected in the other, notice thereof shall be given to the House in which 
the same shall have passed. 

13. When a bill or resolution which has been passed in one House 
shall be rejected in the other, it shall not be brought in during the same 
session, without a notice of ten days, and leave of two-thirds of that 
Ho^ise in which it shall be renewed. 

14. Each House shall transmit to the other all papers on which any 
bill or resolution shall be founded. 

15. After each House shall have adhered to their disagreement, a bill 
or resolution shall be lost. 

16. No bill that shall have passed one House shall be sent for concur- 
rence to the other on either of the three last days of the session. 

17. No bill or resolution that shall have passed the House of Repre- 
sentatives and the Senate shall be presented to the President of the Uni- 
ted States, for his approbation, on the last day of the session. 

18. When bills which have passed one House are ordered to be printed 
in the other, a greater number of copies shall not be printed than may be 
necessary for the use of the House making the order. 

19. No intoxicating liquors shall be offered for sale, or exhibited, within 
the Capitol, or on the public grounds adjacent thereto. 

20. There shall be a Joint Committee on the Library, to consist of 
three members on the part of the Senate, and three on the part of the 
House of Representatives, to superintend and direct the expenditure of 
all moneys appropriated for the Library, and to perform such other duties 
as are or may be directed by law. 

21 . After six days from the commencement of a second or subsequent 
session of Congress, all bills, resolutions, or reports, which originated in 
either House, and, at the close of the next preceding session, remained 
undetermined in either House, shall be resumed and acted on in the 
same manner as if an adjournment had not taken place . 



INDEX 



RULES OF THE SENATE 



UNITED STATES, 



A. 

•Absence, from the Senate, not allowed without leave - - - - 8 

without leave, in cases of, the Sergeant-at-arms may be sent 8 

Address to the President, how to be presented (joint rule) - •* - - > 11 

Adhere, effect of a vote in the two houses to (joint rule) ----- 15 

Adjournment, motion for, has precedence - - - - - - -11 

Admission on the floor, the persons entitled to - - - - - 47 

Amendments to a resolution to amend the constitution, carried by a majority - - 43 

to bills on which the two houses disagree, conference upon (joint rule) - 1 

Appeal allowed from the decision of the President ------ 6 

B. 

Bills nmy be introduced upon one day's notice 25 

shall be read twice before amendment or reference ----- 27 

reported, shall be printed - - - - - . - -25 

shall receive three readings on different days ------ 26 

on second reading, considered as in committee of the whole - - - 28 

proceedings on, at different stages ------- 29 

titles of, only, and parts affected by amendments, inserted on the journal - 31 

engrossed, how examined, reported, and entered ----- 33 

on their passage to be on paper (joint rule) - - - - - - 5 

to be enrolled on parchment after passing the two houses (joint rule) - - 

See Engrossed Bills. 

Bills passed one house and lost in the other, notice to be given of (joint rule) - - 12 

how they may be renewed (joint rule) - - 13 
when sent from one house to the other, to be accompanied by the papers on which they 

are founded (joint rule) -------- 14 

not to be sent from one house to the other for concurrence on the three last days of 

the session (joint rule) --------16 

not to be presented to the President on the last day of a session (joint rule) - - 17 
joint rule relative to printing of -------18 

Blanks, in filling, what motions have preference ------ 13 

Business, unfinished, has preference «.-,--- 15 



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INDEX TO THE RULES OF THE SENATE. 



Capitol, no spirituous liquors to be brought within of about (joint rule) 
■Chair to be addressed «-»*-» 

Character of persons nominated t© be kept secret * 

Claims, effrct of decisions upon & * * * 

Commit, motion to, in order at any time before final passage ■ 

Committee on Enrolled Bills, appointment and duties of (joint rule) 
Committees, standing «.«.». 

how appointed -»•»-..*.* 

on Enrolled Bills (joint rule) * - « *. 

reports from standings when received * 

reports of, to lie one day * - • 

Communications , confidential, to be kept secret » - » * 

Conference on disagreeing votes of the two houses, rule respecting (joint rule) 
Confidence^, respecting violations of - - - * - * 

Consent, bills may be read three times in one day, by unanimous * 

nominations may be considered on the day received, by Unanimous 
Constitution, what majority requisite to amend a resolution proposing amendments to the 
Conversation among the members) not allowed during the debate, or while papers are 
reading • - » * '.. » » * 



No. 
19 

3 

39 
49 
29 

T 
33 
34 

7 

24 
26 
38 

1 
50 
26 
36 
43 



Dibate, no member to speak more than twice, in one day, in the same) without leave - 4 
not allowed on a call to order »--»»»»6 

prohibited on a motion to adjourn -•».--- -H 

not allowed on a call for reading papers ****.» 14 
not allowed in taking yeas and nays * - ' '• * > r * . 16 

$)ocumenl$,to be printed only by special order »■*••*-"» 25 



E. 



Enrolled bilk, to be examined by the committee (joint rule) * «. f 

provision for the appointment of the Committee on (joint rule) 7 

to be signed by the presiding onlcers of the two houses (joint rule) - 8 

how to be presented to the President, and the time to be noted (joint rule) . 9 

hot to be presented to the President on last day of session (joint rule) - if 

Executive record, extracts from, prohibited *--»**» 43 

Executive proceedings to be kept in separate books * - - - - » 4 1 

Expulsion, a case for » » * » » » - * * 60 



Flobr of Senate, the persons entitled to admission on the 



41 



G. 



Celeries) when they shall be cleared 



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INDEX TO THE RULES OF THE SENATE. 
J. 

Journal, to be read on a quorum assembling - 

to contain the titles only of bills, and the parts affected by proposed amend* 
ments -**.**.-.- 
every vo:e to be entered on ._-.».« 

a brief statement of every memorial, petition, and paper, to be entered on 
to be as concise as possible, when acting as in committee of the whole - 
engrossed bills to be entered on 



15 



No. 
1 

31 
33 
32 
32 
32 



Leave to bring in a bill, one day's notice of motion for, required - 

M. 

Members, prohibited from speaking to each other during debate * » 

present, not a quorum, empowered to send for absent members 
shall express assent or dissent by ay or no - * « 

Member, when he speaks, shall address the chair * 

after speaking shall sit down * 

shall speak but twice the same day, in one debate, without leave 
first rising and addressing the chair, shall speak first 
called to order by the President or senator, shall sit down 
words of, shall be taken down, When called to order by a senator 
shall not absent himself without leave * 

any, may desire a motion to be reduced to writing 
may have a question divided, if susceptible of division * * 

required to vote when yeas and nays are called - 
not allowed to vote after decision is announced * 
Memorial or petition, contents of, shall be stated before received and read * 
when received **-»*- 
how referred * * » - • » 

contents of, to be entered on the journal 
Messages between the two houses, how to be announced and delivered (joint rules) 

by whom to be sent (joint rule) * 
Messengers, when introduced --»-.* 

Motion, no to be debated until seconded « 

made and seconded, shall, if desired, be reduced to writing 

to be read before debated «»•**- 

to adjourn has preference --»-«* 

to adjourn, to be decided without debate * 

privileged, what shall be, when a subject is under debate - 

privileged in filling blanks --»--* 

privileged, in reference to select or standing committees - 

to close the galleries, shall be^iscussed confidentially 

to admit persons for the purpose of presenting memorial, not in order 

to reconsider, when and by whom may be made - • * : 

N. 

Newspapers, not to be read while a member is speaking • 

Nominations, not to be considered on the day received, unless by consent * 



25 



2 

8 

22 

3 

3 

4 

5 

6 

7 

8 

10 

12 

16 

17 

24 

24 

24 

32 

2, 3 

4 

46 

9 

10 

10 

11 

11 

11 

13 

35 

18 

19 

44 



2 

36 



16 INDEX TO THE RULES OF THE SENATE. 

No, 
Nominations not finally acted on during the session, to fall ----- 36 
Not ice of one day required of an intended motion for leave to bring in a bill - 25 



Ofjizer of the Senate, for what liable to dismissal ------ 50 

Orders of the day, special, not called before one o'clock - - - - '30 

of the day, special, unfinished business has preference in - - - 15 

Order, interruption of ------ ---S 

Order, upon a call to, the member shall sit down ------ 6 

questions of, to be decided without debate - - - - - - 6 

appeals on questions of, may be made from the President's decision 6 

on questions of, the President may require the sense of the Senate 6 

Order, upon a call to, by a senator, for words spoken, the exceptionable words shall be 

taken down ------ ...7 

P. 

Papers and documents not to be printed without special order - - - 25 

Persons not admitted to present a memorial, &c. ------ 19. 

entitled to admission on floor, the - - - - - - - 47 

Petition, before received, contents of, to be stated - - - - - 24 

when received ---------24 

how referred ---------24 

contents of those presented to be entered on the journal - - - S2 

President to be first addressed by the speaker ------ 3 

to decide when two or more rise at the same time to speak 5 

to decide questions of order - - - - - - -6 

may call for the sense of the Senate on a question of order 6 

may desire a motion to be reduced to writing ----- 10 

to decide on an equal division ----- - 21 

decision of, on an equal division, to be taken by the Secretary - - 21 

shall put all questions --------22 

may, for a limited time, name a member to perform the duties of the Chair - 23 
may appont a chairman, while the Senate are acting as in committee ot the 

whole 28 

to give notice of the several readings of bills - - - - 26 

to have the regulation of the parts of the Capital appropriated to the Senate - 48 

President of the United States, manner of presenting bills and resolutions to the (joint rule) 9 

President of the United States, forms when meeting the Senate - - - - 65 

President of the United States, manner of presenting joint addresses to the (joint rule) - 11 

no bill or resolution to be presented on the last day of the session to the (joint 

rule) 17 

to be assigned the President's chair when attending the deliberations of the 

Senate ----------36 

Presiding officer of the Senate to have the regulation of certain parts of the Capitol - 48 

Printing of bills, joint rule relating to -------18 

Privilege of admission to the floor, persons entitled to - - - -47 



Question under debate, when, and by what motions superseded - - - - 11 

may be divided ---------12 



INDEX TO THE RULES OF THE SENATE. 



17 



Question, final, on second reading - - 

to be decided, ay or no - - - - - 

to be put by the President of the Senate ------ 

on amending the constitution, short of the main question, to be determined by a 
majority ---------- 

Quorum, proceedings when a less number shall have assembled 



No. 

29 
22 

22 

43 

8 



R. 



Reading newspapers prohibited while the journals or public papers are reading or a mem- 
ber speaking --------- 

of a paper called for, and objected to, to be decided by the Senate 
Reconsideration, motion for, may be made by one of the majority - - - - 

or by a member of the side that prevailed - - - - - 

motion for, must be made within two days after vote - - - 

motion for, must be made before the subject-matter is out of possession of 
Senate --.-- _-.- 

of a question requiring the affirmative vote of two-thirds, to be deter- 
mined by a majority ------- 

Record, executive, extracts from, prohibited ------ 

Reference of petitions, &c, how made ------- 

Reports of standing committees, when received ------ 

of committees, to lie one day ------- 

Resolutions, requiring approbation of the President to amend constitution, and grant 
money, to be treated as bills ------- 

other, to lie one day -------- 

on third reading, amended only by consent - 

engrossed, recommitted, and reported, to be again read second time - 
orders, votes, &c, requiring the President's approbation, shall be signed and 
presented as in case of bills (See Bills) (joint rule) - - - - 

passed one house and lost in the other, notice to be given (joint rule) 
not to be presented to the President on last day of the session (joint rule) 



2 
14 

20 
44 
20 

20 

44 

42 
24 

24 



26 
26 
2» 

29 

10 
12 
17 



Secrecy enjoined on confidential communications - - - - - - 38 

enjoined on remarks on persons nominated ------ 39 

enjoined on treaties ---- - - , _ 33 

Secretary to endorse bills passed, &c. -------45 

to take the decision of the Vice President when the Senate is equally divided - 21 

to receive from committee, and enter engrossed bills - - - - 33 

to furnish the President a ith transcripts of executive journal - - - 42 

to attend and take minutes when Senate is convened to any other place - - 36 

to make returns on nominations, from day to day - - - - 42 

to return or deliver no paper, except original treaties, without order of Senate - 42 

to furnish no extract from executive journal without special order - - 42 

to convey messages to House of Representatives - - - 45 

Benate, proceedings of, wnen a number less than a quorum shall have assembled 8 

proceedings of, in quasi committee to be entered concise'y - - 33 

2 



18 IXDEX TO THE RULES OF THE SENATE. 

No. 
Senate, ceremonial proceedings when met by the Resident of the United States at any 

other place than the Senate Chamber ------ 35 

I 36 

I 37 

relating to the executive proceediags of - - - - - { 38- 

3<* 

■who shall be admitted when engaged in executive or confidential business - - 40 

the proceedings of, to be recorded separately - - - - - 41 

transcripts and extracts from executive records, in what cases furnished - 42 
votes of, to be entered on journal -------32 

contents of memorials and petitions presented to, to be entered on the journal - 33 
shall be cleared of all persons except their officers, when acting on executive 

business ---------- 4f> 

executive proceedings of, to be recorded separately from the legislative - 41 

messages to and from (joint rules) - ------ 2,3 s 

Speaiingy among the naeaabers, prohibited during debate ----- 2 

more than twice in one day on the same subject, prohibited 4 

Spirits, not to be brought within or about the Capitol (joint rule) - 1$ 

T. 

77m?, longest, first put ---------13 

Treaties, proceedings on- ------ --37 

to be kept secret, until injunction be removed 38 

U. 

Unfinished business, has prsfereac* in special orders ----- 15. 

V. 

Vice President, or President pro tempore, may appoint a chairman - - - -23* 

Vole, every, to be entered on the journal -------32 

no member allowed to, after decision is announced ----- 17 

W. 

U\ ds, exceptionable, shall be taken down, when a call to order is made by a senator - 7 

Y. 

¥$a and nays, to be called alphabetically -------16 

may be required by one-fifth ------ 16 

to be taken without debate - - - - - - -16 

after being taken no member allowed to enter his vote - 17 



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